Students learn about sampling by tracing improvements in sampling procedures over the twentieth century. Scientific inquiries involving flawed sampling are illustrated and discussed using the Literary ...

Most statistical methodology in use today is designed for sampling schemes or experimental designs in which the sample size or number of data points is regarded as a fixed, present parameter. This is ...

Since Moser and Stuart's pioneering work (Moser and Stuart 1953), systematic investigation of random and quota sampling has fallen into abeyance amongst British researchers. 1 In the USA, the ...

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in probability sampling, and some proponents of the method have urged its use in public opinion surveys. This article reports on a comparative study of ...

One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting ...